When characters become bigger than TV shows!

Take Balika Vadhu for instance. The show never became a hit among small
screen viewers just because of the social subject it touched upon and
discouraged child marriage. But it was the central character of Anandi
that manage to strike the right chord with audiences and it became a
win-win situation for everyone. Clearly, Anandi scored way more and
above the show 'Balike Vadhu' itself and that validates how a character
can supersede the show that created it.The latest buzz around the Telly world is that Gutthi aka Sunil Grover,
the popular fictitious character on 'Comedy Nights with Kapil' has quit
the show. While some say it's due to financial reasons that Gutthi
decided to leave, some believe it was his equations with host and
producer of the show Kapil Sharma that led to his abrupt exit from the
show.

As everyone continues to speculate whether they would get to see Gutthi
and her funny antics ever again on small screen, I have a different
story to tell. I somehow feel that it's insecurity that creeps in, which
becomes a prime reason behind such decisions. Evidently, Gutthi's
immense popularity was taking over Kapil's screen presence.

Despite the fact that the show truly and solely belonged to the
tongue-in-cheek stand-up comedian, audiences still would wait for Gutthi
to come and woo them with the funniest tricks and that crazy-to-die-for
accent. So, it won't be wrong to say that this can be one of the most
important reasons that forced Sunil Grover aka Gutthi to call it quits.

Moreover, if you see over the last few years, whatever popular shows
have made it BIG on television, it has been seen that somewhere or the
other, it is due to one particular character that the show picks up on
the TRP chart. And revolving around that peculiar character, the show
would continue for ages and would never end.

In case of 'Comedy Nights' with Kapil, it was Gutthi who scored over the
host himself and you can't blame anyone for this - neither audiences
who went gaga over Gutthi's performance nor Kapil who is seemingly
getting repetitive in his humour and punches on the show.

Agree or not but even Kapil Sharma's interaction with tinsel town
celebrities was getting a bit monotonous with predictable questions and
twists and eventually, everyone would be looking forward to Gutthi's
entry to bring something new.

Another popular daily soap 'Uttaran' also survived for so long because
of its protagonists Iccha and Tapasya. The two on-screen characters
became household names for the small screen viewers and I won't be
surprised if the producers and show makers drag and stretch the soap for
next few years just with these two prime characters doing their bit.

So it's nobody's fault but definitely someone's loss becomes another
person's gain. As rumours of Gutthi leaving 'Comedy Nights with Kapil'
continue to pick momentum, I'd say guys take a chill pill, if not
Gutthi, there would be someone else to tickle your funny bone.